Sunday’s final phase of the junta’s vote features entrenched power networks, uncontested seats and elections held in active conflict zones.

A woman and children are pictured in the predominantly Christian region of Myanmar’s Kachin state, which has witnessed sporadic fighting for decades. Renewed fighting since 2011 between the military ...

In this Oct. 29, 2013, file photo, soldiers of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) stand on guard in Laiza, a border town of China and Myanmar, Kachin State, Myanmar. Credit: AP Photo/Khin Maung Win, ...

(Reuters) -The global supply of heavy rare earths hinges in part on the outcome of a months-long battle between a rebel army and the Chinese-backed military junta in the hills of northern Myanmar. The ...

YANGON, Myanmar, March 1 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency said on Friday that an inter-agency visit to northern Myanmar's Kachin state has successfully delivered badly-needed aid to hundreds of ...

She had just finished describing how she had been raped by two men, dressed as policemen, when more police showed up. These police weren’t wearing uniforms, but everyone in the village in Burma’s ...

The others remain displaced within Kachin state, unable to go home. Under the inter-agency response in Kachin state, UNHCR leads protection efforts for internally displaced people and works with local ...

BANGKOK — A helicopter belonging to Myanmar’s military crashed in a combat zone in the country’s north while returning from a mission to deliver supplies to army outposts, a state-run newspaper ...